Everything Changes

by Shannon Muir

Angie and Belinda Harrison unexpectedly lose both their parents on the night they celebrate Belinda's graduation from college. While they always knew their family had secrets, more become apparent when associates of their mother appear exposing them to things about her they never knew. Belinda, now Angie's guardian, makes difficult and unpopular choices to keep them together - while Angie tries amidst the chaos to find support in her friends Bill and Rhonda, and meets a newcomer to the eighth grade named Cherie Daniels who will become an unexpected friend in troubled times. Willowbrook is a town where a past of agriculture and pioneer medicine collide with a town moving forward in state of the art commerce and healthcare. With the changing times have come changing ideas that lay hidden in the dark for many years which these two families will begin to bring to light. This is the first book in the Willowbrook Saga, which will follow Angie Harrison and Cherie Daniels from eighth grade through adulthood, and the things they face together. The series explores dark places yet will also show glimpses of love. NOW COLLECTED AS PART OF WILLOWBROOK SAGA: THROUGH THE GENERATIONS (WILLOWBROOK SAGA COLLECTION, BOOK 1) AND THIS VERSION IS OUT OF PRINT.

214 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 3, 2012

About the author

SHANNON MUIR's prose encourages readers to "uncover the mystery of character," with an emphasis on mystery, New Pulp and noir, science fiction, and fantasy. She’s also known for writing animation scripts and for textbooks written based on her experience in the animation industry, now out of print, entitled GARDNER'S GUIDE TO WRITING AND PRODUCING ANIMATION and GARDNER'S GUIDE TO PITCHING AND SELLING ANIMATION.

Her latest suspenseful mystery releases are “Tropical Terror” in CRIME DOWN ISLAND and “Hidden History” in EXPLORER PULP. She’s also written “Tragic Like a Torch Song” in THE DAME DID IT from Pro Se Press, the short story “Meeting the Monster” in the Emby Press anthology SUPERHERO MONSTER HUNTER: THE GOOD FIGHT, the Single Shot New Pulp tale “Ghost of the Airwaves,” preceded by her debut genre fiction story “Pretty as a Picture” in the anthology NEWSHOUNDS. From her personal self-published projects, best known titles in this area include the rural-noir inspired THE WILLOWBROOK SAGA.

She is also known as administrator of the blogs THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF and the feature SHANNON MUIR'S INFINITE HOUSE OF BOOKS at her official blog, under which she also manages branded books as part of her self-publishing efforts.

Shannon holds a BA in Radio-TV and English from Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, which she considers to be her hometown. She also holds an MA in Communications from California State University, Fullerton, along with additional education in screenwriting, project management, library technician studies, and most recently a certificate earned with distinction in General Business with Emphasis in Marketing from UCLA Extension.

She is married to FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY collaborator and fellow author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden. They live in California in the United States.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime (national, Guppy and Los Angeles chapters), an affiliate member of Mystery Writers of America (and also part of their Southern California Chapter), Writers Guild of America - Animation Writers Caucus, Women in Animation, and ASIFA-Hollywood.